CRM glossary
Next best action
Also called: NBA, offer ranking
Next best action is a decisioning approach that, for each customer at each moment, ranks the messages or offers available and picks the one with the highest expected value. It replaces campaign-by-campaign scheduling with a single queue, which settles the weekly argument over who gets to contact the same customer. It needs eligibility rules, propensity scores and a value estimate per action. Start with rules and an explicit priority order; the model can come later.
Articles using this term · 2
- AI agents in lifecycle marketing: what we let them do · 13 April 2026
- Next best action instead of another campaign · 22 September 2025